That means it can be used to help more people, including members of racial and ethnic minority groups who often have trouble finding compatible donors.

My wife needs a kidney, but I am not a compatible donor.

She needs a bone marrow transplant and is waiting for a compatible donor.

"Do you have a compatible donor listed in the files?"

Only 30 to 40 percent of patients waiting for conventional transplants find compatible donors.

Using the same technique to select for a compatible donor, however, does not help the "patient" whose cells are being tested.

Global databases of donor information enhance the search for compatible donors.

But when he turned out to be a compatible donor, all was forgiven.

Every day, 12 patients die in the EU due to a lack of compatible donors.

But the Ayalas could not find a compatible donor.